With the rapid development of information technology in the digital age and the extensive application of automated administration, the due process model in the administrative law is facing multifaceted challenges. By empowering the public as well as the administrative counterparts within the whole administrative process through a series of intricately designed institutions, sufficient protection of the due process can be guaranteed in the process of automated administration. With empowerment as the core purpose and improvement of abilities in both information and action as the starting point, the existing practice and theoretical advocations of technical due process can be reconstructed into an idealized model with the following six aspects, that is, participation in the whole process, disclosure of fundamentals, full notification, effective communication, record retention, and manual review. As legislative practice of China has already presented quite a few institutional designs that reflect the intrinsic value of technical due process, it is necessary to carry out deeper explorations into such issues as establishing hierarchical interpretation mechanisms, standardized record retention mechanisms and structured manual intervention mechanisms, so as to form a complete institutional scheme for technical due process. |